Police fired on US gov't vehicle: Mexican Navy

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Police fired on US gov't vehicle: Mexican Navy
Associated Press | Updated: August 25, 2012 12:10 IST

Mexico City: Mexican federal police fired on a U.S. Embassy vehicle and wounded two U.S. government employees on Friday after their vehicle drove into a rural, mountainous area outside the capital where the officers were looking for criminals, Mexican and U.S. officials said.

The two embassy employees were hospitalised, one with a leg wound and the other hit in the stomach and hand, according to a government official who spoke on condition of anonymity. Hospital officials in Cuernavaca, the nearest city, said they were taken in the afternoon to Mexico City for treatment. The U.S. Embassy said in a statement they were in stable condition.

The embassy did not release the names of the victims, and only said its vehicle, also carrying a Mexican Navy captain, was ambushed by a group of armed men.

The Navy said in a written statement that federal police shot the U.S. vehicle, but its description of the incident left out key details of how the shooting occurred. It said at least four vehicles opened fire on the Americans' sport utility vehicle on a road south of Mexico City, but did not make clear if any of the four carried federal police officers.


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[dballance]

1. Hmm, Four MX vehicles at just the right time and place...

to fire on one US SUV with "embassy employees." Yea, right. Who else wants to bet those "embassy employees" might have been something a bit else, a bit more covert?

Get a good cover story going US State Dept. Mexico is supposed to be an ally.

Obviously some one in your ranks in Mexico sold you out.

[cstanleytech]

2. And your evidence is.......what exactly?

Sure you could be right, wouldnt be the first time some goverment spied on its allies (like Israel spies on the US) but it also could have just been a screwup by the mexican police as well.

[geek tragedy]

5. So the Mexicans shoot Americans, and your reaction

is to bash the Americans and suggest they had it coming.

Charming.

[Robb]

8. The're tracking you with your fillings, you know.

Take countermeasures.

[99th_Monkey]

3. "Friendly fire" ... not just in Afghanistan anymore. ~nt

[Trillo]

4. So armored vehicles are not "safe".

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014205997
The two were riding in an armored U.S. Embassy vehicle when they came under fire on a highway leading to the city of Cuernavaca.

[steve2470]

6. Mexican NAVY ? I don't get this

Is the Navy land-based in Mexico as well, or am I missing something here ?

[hack89]

7. They have a 20,000 man strong Naval Infantry Force - comparable to our Marines.

they are heavily involved in the war against the drug cartels.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Naval_operations_in_the_Mexican_Drug_War

[steve2470]

9. ah ok thanks for that nt